The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-16
PERSONAL.

MISS ELEANOR WINsIow the American beauty
is dubbed the "Ex-Chamberlain" in London.
VERDI and his wife are but ding a splendid
hospital at Busseto, which they will richly en-
dow and give to the town.
HERR H,RMoSIsT, one of the leading players
at the Frankfort chess conference, was formerly
a ballet dancer in Berlin.
NJ HERED;A the French Minister of Com.
merce, is Cuban half-breed. NJ. Rochefort in
variably refers to him as 1.-The Ministerial mig
ger"
ALFRED KRrrPP, the great Prussian gun-maker,
left $3.50, 900 to his employees. and his son Fred
erick has added SIPS 900 for the people of Essen.
On the theory that one good turn deserves an
other Essen is going to give Mr.. Krupp $4,000
monument.
THERE is current belief that the gowns of
the Queen of England are made, and have for
some five and twenty years been made. by
dressmaker who plies the art and mystery of
her calling in a little shop in the little town Of
Windsor beneath the castle walls.
II. MARTIN WILLIAMS writes to the st. Louis
Republican that, according TO the best of his
knowledge and belief. Gen. w. II. Lyle wrote
the verses beginning:
u am dying. Egypt, dying
Ebbs the crimson life-tide fast"
while very drunk.
THE DUcuEsS OF CLEVELAND, n New York
paper Rays, has set tho fashion in London of
carrying an open paraSol while riding on horse
back As the Duchess is close on so years of
age and n confirmed invalid. there cannot be
much truth in the statement. She is the mother
Of Lord RoSebclTy, having married in 1913 as
her first husband Lord Dalmeny.
DR. GRIZZLIES w. DAnNEY, .Te., late Chemist
and Director or the Experiment Station OF
North Carolina. and one of the most enthusiasts
tic and wcllcquipped workers for the spread Of
sound industrial education in the South, has
been elected President of the University Of Ten
nessCe. at Knoxville, an institution where special
attention is given TO scientific farming. mining
and the practical arts
The official Journal de BrU1ellcs announces
that the Marqui'e ArconNci, daughter of the
French Senator Peytral. has presented her castle
aud the domains OF Ciacsbecll 10 the State Of
Belgium. In making the donation she stipu-
lated that "if, in consequence of war, Belgium
becomes dependency OF Germany, the gift is
revoked and the property reverts TO the heirs of
the Marquise II, however, Belgium becomes
French, IN consequences of war, the castle ie-
mains in possession of the state
PBINcE ALEXANDER CoNsTANrINovrrcH BA-
GRAFTON. lHERTINsKl, whom the cable announces
as lllsSias candidate for the throne of Bulgaria,
is 50 years Of age. and like her former candi-
date, the Prince Of Mngrclia. is descended from
Caucasian family which formerly possessed
sovereign rights. Tie took part in the quelling
of the Polish insulTection in 1868 and gave
proof OF military ability in the battles before
PleVua. He has been for some years Adjutant
General oC the Gar and Procurator General Of
the Russian army.
LARoucaEpE, after studying the forms of the
English women who play tennis submits II
his modest opinion that "the ladies who play.
more especially the practiced players, are all as
crooked as rams horns He finds, he says,
that the right shoulder of the average female
athlete however otherwise charming, is about
tNu inches broader tN0n the left that the body
inClinss prepoStnrously and to my sympathetic
rlmd most painfully 20 the right side. that the
right arm aud fist are those of a blacksmith
while the left arm resembles the drIimstick of
the chicken of a German table d'hota-"